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Potential Process Herpaderping Attempt
editPotential Process Herpaderping Attempt
editIdentifies process execution followed by a file overwrite of an executable by the same parent process. This may indicate an evasion attempt to execute malicious code in a stealthy way.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Defense Evasion
Version: 2 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editsequence with maxspan=5s [process where event.type == "start" and not process.parent.executable : "C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\*.exe"] by host.id, process.executable, process.parent.entity_id [file where event.type == "change" and event.action == "overwrite" and file.extension == "exe"] by host.id, file.path, process.entity_id
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
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Technique:
- Name: Masquerading
- ID: T1036
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1036/
Rule version history
edit- Version 2 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only